'66 University of Texas sniper survivor against gun bill

http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/politics/66-UT-sniper-survivor-against-gun-bill

AUSTIN (KXAN) - Jim Bryce still finds it tough to return to the University of Texas after 45 years. Standing across Guadalupe Street this week, he stared at the exact place a sniper shot his friend, Sandra Wilson.

"There were pops. Pop, pop, pop,” Bryce said. “The bullet that hit her blew off her left tricep."

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"We started telling people who were walking up and down all the hallways 'Don't go outside and don't look out the windows, because if you can see him he can see you,'” he said. “Unfortunately, one student decided to go up the stairway into the union, and I saw him shot through the window."

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Bryce and other survivors of the 1966 shooting agree with that argument. On Tuesday, he is testifying against the bill proposed by Sen. Jeff Wentworth’s, R-San Antonio. SB 354 is before the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.

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There was plenty of return fire directed at the tower from the ground that day, even before the police showed up. It happened in the summer right after I graduated, so I was at home and watched it live on WOAI-TV.

Guns are no longer allowed on campus, hence there won't be any return fire currently.

of students and others on campus that day that helped end that shooting.